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"Qard Al-Hassan” Association’s servers and cameras, have been hacked yesterday by a group calling itself "SpiderZ" - they obtained information exposing names of senior depositors & other details from the database. More about it ⬇️ (2)

The al-Qard al-Hassan Association was established by Hezbollah in the 1980s, and is subordinate to it. It has 32 branches throughout Lebanon, and declares itself a charity association that provides financial assistance to the Shiite population in Lebanon. Via @DoubleCheque

نينا عبد الملك نسفت سنوات من الجهود الحقوقية من خلال فيديو أقل ما يُقال عنو إنو ناتج عن صبية منها قارية كتاب عن حقوق الإنسان أو حقوق المرأة.

"أسمى مهام المرأة هو أن تصبح أم وهون بتكون المرأة حقّقت ذاتها".

طيب والمرأة يلي ما فيها تجيب ولاد؟!

بعدين شو هالتشبيه: "ليه بدكن تكونوا متل الرجال وتتعبوا أدهن؟"

أديه أسلوب طبقي بالنقاش؟

حبيبتي نينا مش كلنا عنا خدم وحشم يسهلولنا حياتنا في نساء مضطرين ينحتوا بالصخر ليأمنوا عيشة كريمة.

As many of us spent their Saturday October 17th 2020 night emotional, feeling loss, pain over the country & over those who lost their lives on August 4th, somewhere in Beirut on a rooftop overlooking the damaged sea port, music is blasting & other people are having drinks. Seriously hoping that none replies with "but who are you to dictate people and how they live".

1/ So many accounts & pages trying to discredit & frame me because I dare to criticize #Hezbollah. Good luck with that, if an Israeli news outlet used my tweets about Hezbollah, its because they can since my account is public, I can't control who quotes my tweets. 2/ But I can control who I talk to, and as a Lebanese journalist & passport holder: I don't engage in conversations with any Israeli media even though they do try to send messages on Twitter. I know the law, I respect my country, and most importantly my work.

1/ Thank you iCloud storage, for making my #Beirut memories easily accessible. I found a collection of pictures that I took in Beirut specifically between the years 2014 - 2017 when I used to work full time in Pasteur street/Gemayze, one of the most damaged by the explosion. 2/ This one is on a Saifi rooftop, where a studio was located, me and my colleague used to rent out the space to edit our documentary. I spent hours on that roof observing Beirut. Sometime during one of those days the Ammonium Nitrate shipment landed in the port ahead.

#Lebanon: Coffee creamers are now cheaper than Pads and tampons. That's what happens when the government decides to subsidize coffee creamer but not essential women's hygiene goods.

Just a question in mind: how will refugee communities afford this? I think i'll ask my period for sometime off in this final 2020 quarter. LOL.

Back in 2015 I lost 9 of my family members in the sea. Their boat drowned, they had left Turkey illegally to Greece en route to Europe. After living on the Lebanese Syrian borders for years they were desperate for a better life. I fear such news 👇🏻
dailystar.com.lb/News/World/202… Please read my family's story and spread awareness regarding this type of travel/illegal immigration, because the last thing I expected in 2015 was to get a call shortly after landing back in Beirut from Izmir, telling me that they drowned on the coast of Izmir. 👇🏻

Some updates on the situation of rescue teams in #Beirut:
•There's not homogeneous work every team wants to do as they please.
•Chilean team had to stop working many times today due to disagreements with local Lebanese teams.
•The building might collapse due to damage. More updates:

•No sonar tests were done since the afternoon.
•The press is being asked to leave not bcz of vital signs detection testing but bcz Lebanese teams don't want to deal with press.
•No official explanatory statements to update the press or people generally.

1/Noting that this building is the only badly damaged one in this street:

Why didn't local rescue teams + experts clear the rubbles sooner?!

This video is from 1 month ago, how come they eliminated the possibility of finding survivors so quickly? Video by @salmanonline 2/ In many CCTV footage we noticed people running into stores or entrances of buildings to take shelter between the 1st and 2nd explosion on August 4th, given that this building is semi collapsed, wouldn't it be possible that some people had taken shelter inside?!

#Lebanon

Local media @ALJADEEDNEWS 's reporter is sharing preliminary news about the Chili rescue team finding a victim in one of the Gemayze buildings 1 month after the #Beirutexplosion. News is surreal, it says 'Person may be alive'. The breaking news we got from @ALJADEEDNEWS - it says trained dogs were able to pick up survivor's signs in a collapsed building after 1 month (30 days) after the #Beirutexplosions. The Rescue team from Chili is supposedly the one handling this mission.

aljadeed.tv/arabic/news/lo…

1/ #Lebanon : Some initiatives working on the ground in #Beirut since the #Beirutexplosions specifically in Gemayze/Mar Mekhayel have been acting in an obvious racist/sectarian way. So far many people came forward to me & shared this in the past few days. 2/ I will not name names for now, but we as journalists do have a list of all the initiatives, and we do have eyes on the ground. When people trust us to share their stories, we will nurture their trust. While all the efforts are appreciated, such attitudes are not tolerated.

For everyone concerned about my mental health post #Beirutexplosion - I have been into therapy for exactly a year now due to an accumulation of hostile coverages in addition to my repetitive anxiety attacks since 2016. I am very transparent about my mental health 🤍 Mental health is a priority for me, I always had a strong support network, some of my closest friends are mental health professionals, but I spent so much time looking for a therapist whom I can relate to. I finally committed to therapy last year.

1/ #Lebanon didn't really get 1 moment of peace since the beginning of August/ before the #Beirutexplosions everyone was worried about a potential war with Israel, especially after the Iranian flight incident that was almost hit by warplanes over Syria. 2/ On August 4th the #Beirutexplosions happened and the horror began. It still feels fresh.

On the first weekend after the explosions #LebanonProtests happened and real bullets were shot straight at protestors from men wearing civilian clothes at times.

Cherry on top of the month; listening to one of my female neighbors argue with her boyfriend downstairs in the street and then she suddenly screams because he just hit her, called her a bitch around 20 times and possibly from the sound of it broke her phone before taking off. Apparently he asked her to go through her phone texts infront of him assuming she cheated on him. After hitting her I heard him say "something something .. HONOR" and then she screamed "which honor do you speak of when you hit a woman?!"

1/ Journalists are under incredible pressure since the #Beirut_Explosion - we are trying our best to be as calm as possible, as contained as possible in the middle of a crisis that is eating us inside out, not to mention the economic crisis & #Covid19 & our fear for our families. 2/ This is to talk about local Lebanese Journos specifically because reporting from home about home makes it very hard to isolate yourself or even reason with yourself mentally. That being said, the last thing we need is people harassing us in the street. #Lebanon

Latest with @LauraSSpark for @cnni

"This action, the act of collective mobilization and cleaning, proved that Lebanon is for all, the Lebanese people are the government, they, we are handling this better than the government, look around" #Lebanon edition.cnn.com/2020/08/09/mid… Meanwhile, on the streets of Lebanese capital, many people -- some skeptical about what the authorities will do and when -- were taking the clean-up operation following Tuesday's blast and violent protests Saturday into their own hands. #BeirutExplosions #Lebanon

Heartbroken, we are watch the last goodbyes for Sahar Fares, a 25 year old woman who was a part of the civil defense unit, the first responders' group who arrived to the Beirut port to extinguish the first fire. She was the only woman with the group. #Lebanon Watching* sorry its very hard to focus right now.

1/I was at home, sitting on my desk, I had made fresh coffee and opened my laptop, I felt my ears close, suddenly I felt as if a plane was over my house, my desk shook, I ran to tell my dad that there's an explosion, a second explosion happened at that moment. #Lebanon 2/ It took me less than 3 seconds, I was trying to explain to dad (on my left) that there's an explosion and that we need to move, I turned right, the second explosion happened, my mom and I flew across the room and all the doors were suddenly opened. #Lebanon

Again: Did you know that the wedding of a former Miss #Lebanon beauty pageant winner was allowed over the weekend in the midst of a lockdown while hundreds of weddings were canceled?

She wore a beautiful Dior* dress, in the middle of an economic collapse.

That's privilege. So many Lebanese wasting their energy and time arguing with me on this tweet because in the original one:

-I mistakenly wrote "Chanel" dress when her dress was a Dior design.

-My phone changed Chanel to Channel (Autocorrect).

Really people? Priorities much?

1/ An online battle started on Social media in #lebanon because people wanted to politicize the death of a pregnant woman who died due to the heat and lack of oxygen. Red Cross did not manage to get to her on time sadly. almodon.com/society/2020/7… 2/ As I had tweeted, there were speculations (and I did not confirm in my tweet) about her cause of death and whether or not it had to do with electricity cuts.

Our contacts told me the family does not want to talk. This @almodononline piece clears out the cause of death.

I read on Twitter that many families are considering booking one night or a couple of nights in hotels in #beirut to be able to get a decent amount of sleep in this killer heat - no electricity, no generators, no internet and sometimes no water. #lebanon Now these latest electricity cuts spare almost no one - even if your building has generators, a generator that's operating for more than 12 hours per day will soon heat up and will need to be shut down for a while to cool off. #Lebanon